Mrs. Xu couldn't believe her eyes. There was a person in the corner of the spacious carriage.
She squinted her eyes and finally saw the man's appearance clearly through the blurry moonlight shining through the car window.
"Yun Yao?" Mrs. Xu exclaimed. She never imagined why her daughter, who had been sent away by her, would suddenly appear here.
Shen Yunyao was now tied up hand and foot, with a towel in her mouth, her eyes were red and filled with tears.
When she saw Mrs. Xu and her brother getting into the car, she immediately became excited, twisting her body desperately and making whining sounds.
Mrs. Xu hurriedly stepped forward, took off the towel from her mouth, and asked eagerly: "Yunyao, why are you here? Didn't mother send you out? Where are the Manqing people?"
Of course what she cared about was not Man Qing, but the house deed and the banknotes she gave to Man Qing.
After the towel was removed from her mouth, Shen Yunyao burst into tears.
"Mom, that was when Manqing and I were stopped shortly after we left. I don't know what happened. I never saw her again after that... Wuwu... I thought I would never see her again in this life. I can’t be my mother anymore.”
Shen Yunyao was really frightened these days.
That day, after she was sent away without any warning by Mr. Xu, the carriage was stopped by a group of people before she had gone two blocks away.
Shen Yunyao was frightened at the time and thought someone would dare to rob someone on the street in broad daylight.
But she soon discovered that something was wrong.
Those people didn't do anything drastic. They just separated her from Manqing and then took her to an unknown house.
For several days, she was trapped in that room. Except for three meals a day, she could not see anyone at all.
Those people allowed her to cry and curse in the house, but there was no response at all.
Just when Shen Yunyao was tired and began to accept her fate, she was suddenly taken out again, her hands and feet were tied, her mouth was gagged, and she was stuffed into a carriage.
Shen Yunyao was so panicked, not knowing what kind of misfortune awaited her ahead. It wasn't until she saw Shen Yuanlin and Xu that her tense nerves finally relaxed.
She didn't care to think about what was going on at this time. After being locked up alone for a few days, she was extremely excited to see her family again.
Xu's mood seemed to have sunk to the bottom, as can be imagined. From the beginning, she had been under the surveillance of Mrs. Shen.
She racked her brains to send Shen Yunyao away that day. In the eyes of Mrs. Shen, it was probably just a dying struggle like a clown.
Xu originally thought that after she got the new household registration and official guide, she could take Shen Yuanlin to find Shen Yunyao.
She had already made such considerations when she handed those things to Man Qing.
So there were not only gold and silver coins and banknotes, but also several shops and several properties.
At that time, she didn't have much left in her hands, and it was naturally not as rich as the Shen family. However, as long as she managed it properly, she could still take care of the lives of mother and son.
But seeing Shen Yunyao here now made all her hopes come to nothing...
The carriage carrying the mother and son left Yongzhou Mansion at the last moment before the city gate was closed.
It was quiet in the car. Shen Yunyao had already stopped crying, and Shen Yuanlin had never spoken.
Although Mrs. Xu had a lot to say, she didn't know where to start when faced with her own two children.
The night was getting deeper and deeper. Shen Yunyao and Shen Yuanlin, who were tired of crying, soon fell asleep one after another.
Mrs. Xu sat blankly leaning against the wall of the carriage, her mind in a mess, and for a moment she couldn't figure out how things had developed to where they were now.
She could only keep comforting herself. No matter what, the children were with her and they had successfully left the Shen Mansion.
It is a blessing among misfortunes that we could still end up like this after the Dongchuang Incident.
Just like this, she thought wildly that in the middle of the night, she didn't know when she fell asleep leaning against the wall of the carriage.
After waking up the next day, Mrs. Xu discovered that the carriage they were riding in was specially made. Not only were the doors locked from the outside, but the windows could not be opened.
She couldn't even take a look outside the window, and she had no idea about the direction the carriage was heading.
Every day, they were only allowed to get out of the car and move their hands and feet a little when parking in the wilderness, and they had to be under the supervision of others.
After traveling like this for four or five days, even Xu, who was still a little alert at first, dropped her guard.
That night, when all three of them were asleep, the carriage suddenly came to a sudden stop.
The three people rolled into a ball and finally hit the car door.
Mrs. Xu took a breath of air, touched her forehead which was knocked out, and wanted to see Shen Yunyao and Shen Yuanlin quickly.
"How's it going? Are you okay? Did you stumble?"
The two of them had Xu as a buffer, and neither of them was injured.
Shen Yunyao rubbed her sleepy eyes and said displeasedly: "What's wrong with this coachman? Can he drive a coach?"
Before she could finish her words, the sound of fighting came from outside the carriage.
Mrs. Xu's face instantly turned pale, she clenched her hands and gritted her teeth and said, "I knew the old lady wouldn't let us go."
She grabbed the hands of Shen Yunyao and Shen Yuanlin one by one, and warned: "If the car door is opened in a while, don't think about anything, just run, as far as you can..."
Shen Yuanlin looked indifferent.
Since leaving Shen Mansion, he has not said a word.
At this moment, he suddenly said coldly: "It is better to die cleanly than to live in vain."
When Xu heard this, she felt her heart throbbing.
She stretched out her hand to hug Shen Yuanlin into her arms, and begged with choked sobs: "Lin'er, mother can't help you. But you were all born with your mother's tenth month of pregnancy and she worked hard to raise you. Mother only wants you." To live well...
"The door will open in a while. Mom will try her best to stop them. If you find a chance, run away as soon as possible. Do you hear me?"
Although Mrs. Xu also understood that with the three of them women and children, no matter how they planned it, it would be in vain, but she could not just sit back and wait for death.
Shen Yunyao's eyes flickered, her palms were so nervous that they were sweating, and she felt her heart beating faster and faster in her chest.
Soon, the sound of fighting outside gradually stopped, and someone split the padlock and opened the car door.
Seeing the masked man in black who suddenly appeared in front of him with a knife, Xu trembled all over, but still tried her best to protect the two children behind her.
Without saying a word, the masked man stabbed Xu's chest with a knife.
With hot blood sprayed all over his body and face, Shen Yuanlin, who originally wanted to die, couldn't help but feel fear in his heart, and his desire to survive rekindled.
Just when Shen Yuanlin was hesitating to run, Shen Yunyao suddenly pushed him from behind and pushed him onto the masked man. He took the opportunity to get out of the car door, without caring about the direction, and used all his strength to fight Run away.